Well, well... So the OWS-movement has taken a page from the ImproveEverywhere-book. Good! With authorities closing Zucotti Park and so on, what else can OWS do? The next step, I think, will that they (= OWS) put on masks, but not necessarily 'Guy Fawkes'. Say that officers observe Pulcinella (mr. Punch) breaking a window. How are they to arrest Pulcinella if they observe, similarly, a 100 identical looking Pulcinella's, or more? The Pulcinella's could be running or skating all over the place, simply having fun. Police will always come out bad... That's SystemDisruption for you!

The Occupy Network/Brand is a perma protest against the future. Occupy's Cause of the day: To express discontent with the "indefinite detention" provisions of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act). Action: Freezing Grand Central Station during rush hour.

Thank you for this wonderful piece! Perhaps it is also a systems/culture clash. On one side you have the system that is best described by "moving, interlocking parts" and that is tailor-made for the state as a pyramid, with a king (or whatever) & a clique of courtiers on top, and below political impotent masses. On the other side there is the system/culture that has "copy & paste" built in. I don't mean that in a negative way, to me copy&paste is the superior system (also the younger). Governments in the West are as unprepared for that, as they are in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.

What fills you with wonder? What do you wonder about? These different, but related questions were posed often during the TED event last week. The annual TED event that I attended was organized around the broad theme of the rediscovery of wonder. As always, TED catalyzed deep thinking and deep e...

It IS successfully applied in Western countries. See this post from 2006: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2006/03/starting_an_ope.html. "..the guerrillas aren't loyal to a single group but rather dozens of different groups, each with their own motivations for fighting." Substitute "politicians" for "guerrillas" and you are close to a description of present political parties. Left, especially, is at present anything leftist (or used to be).

Cool. The method of warfare/conflict/protest/revolt pioneered on this blog -- open source insurgency -- is now mainstream. This blog's readers are now practitioners, and it's being used across the world with Tunisia and Egypt as the latest examples. Unfortunately, even al Qaeda is starting ...